Re: Bitstream Vera fonts rpm (fontconfig vers

[Owen Taylor <otaylor redhat com>]

On Thu, 2003-04-17 at 16:43, Nicolas Mailhot wrote:
> Le jeu 17/04/2003 à 22:16, Jim Gettys hp com a écrit :
> > Aaaarg!
> > 
> > This seems pretty broken (or do you have an obsolte fontconfig installed
> > in /usr/local?).  I get 2.1.94 when I as the version number from
> > either fc-list or fc-cache, that I installed earlier today from Keith's
> > latest tarball....
> 
> [nim rousalka nim]$ fc-cache -V
> fontconfig version 1.0.2
> [nim rousalka nim]$ rpm -q fontconfig
> fontconfig-2.1-9
> [nim rousalka nim]$ rpm -V fontconfig
> [nim rousalka nim]$ which fc-cache
> /usr/bin/fc-cache
> [nim rousalka nim]$ rpm -q --whatprovides /usr/bin/fc-cache
> fontconfig-2.1-9
> 
> That's :
> http://www.rpmfind.net/linux/RPM/redhat/9/i386/fontconfig-2.1-9.i386.html
> 
> ie the official RH9 fontconfig (of course I could rebuild one from Keith
> sources but what would be the point ? this is the version most RH users
> will have for a long time)
> 
> That is standard RH practice - build from one official version and then
> add patches (often from upstream cvs) till it's stabilized enough. I
> guess either they started from 1.0.2 or one of the included patches was
> made for this version and replaced the real version number. No big deal
> - they were among the first to offer me a fontconfiged setup and I won't
> begrudge them a slightly erroneous version number.
> 
> So either we put the -f inconditionally or just use fc-cache the way
> it's supposed to work, considering most users won't hit the bug (and if
> lots of them did that would be reason enough to have distros release an
> errata)
> 
> (cc-ing Owen Taylor since he seems to be RedHat's fonconfig maintainer)

Insufficient context here. What's the problem you are trying to solve?

Regards,
                                                   Owen